The Airline already answered this question yesterday!
They went this route because they wanted to save fuel and Money!
The Airlines run by the Govt and they had not banned this route because they are a Neutral state .
No one thought the Russian military and its paid mercenaries would go this far.
Putin is a sick KGB sociopath and so is everyone around him!
“They went this route because they wanted to save fuel and Money!”
I guess that didn’t work out so well for either stated goal.
Then expect Malaysian Airlines to go out of business here very quickly with deathsuits from over 600 people coming plus the lack of consumer confidence to ever get on another Malaysian Airlines flight again.